IF John Travolta’s Tony Manero had been a second-generation Greek-Australian walking the meanish streets of Melbourne, dancing to bouzouki music rather than the Bee Gees – and cruising men – he would have resembled Ari, the character played by Alex Dimitriades in ”Head On.”

Ari can’t follow the middle path his aunt suggests: ”Find a girl, get married, then it doesn’t matter what you do.”

He can dance at his brother’s wedding, but he’ll never have his own. Thus, he’s excluded from fulfilling the destiny his autocratic father plots for him.

Like Tony Manero, Ari awakens to a new dawn, but a different truth. Dancing alone on the docks, Greek-style, he rejects his father’s social conscience for a hedonistic freedom: ”I’m gonna live my life. I’m not going to change a thing … No one’s going to remember me when I’m dead.” He embraces an image of himself as sexual sailor, casting himself on the water of the future, yet unable to sever his ties to the past.